Hey y’all…. Took the advice a lot of you have given and cut my tip into a third so that I could experience most of each area that we visit, I also tried to keep these locations close together so that we wouldn’t spend all day on the trains. So far the new rough outline looks like this
Day 1
Travel
Day 2-4
Tokyo
Day 4-8
Kyoto
(Day 6 night trip to Nagoya for Sumo tournament, leave Kyoto around 5pm)
Day 8-10
Hakone
Leave at 7pm for overnight Fuji hike on day 10
Day 11
Fuji
Day 12
Fuji rest, onsen in Tokyo , walk around Harijuku?
Day 13
Tattoos at Tokyo three tides
Day 14
Shopping, flight home
So that would be 3 cities (plus a trip to Nagoya just to see a sumo tournament), and cutting out cities that are super far away or just don’t make sense to go to. We’d plan on staying in in each city we visit (Tokyo, Kyoto, Hakone, and then Tokyo again since it is close to the airport)… we have a rough outline of activities we want to do in each city as well, but wanted to make sure we got this part of the itinerary down because we’ve never done this sort of thing before like I said, so we want to make sure that this is 100% looking good. Thank you guys for all your help so far, especially pointing out how unrealistically far apart the things we were looking at yesterday was.
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If you have down time in Nagoya, this is a super cool museum:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g298106-d320140-Reviews-Toyota_Commemorative_Museum_of_Industry_and_Technology-Nagoya_Aichi_Prefecture_Tok.html
> Day 12 Fuji rest, onsen in Tokyo , walk around Harijuku?
I would just do your onsen experience in Hakone or the Mt. Fuji area. You could very easily stay overnight at a ryokan with a great onsen, and it would probably be a nice thing after a Mt. Fuji hike. I believe there are a couple of day onsen options in Tokyo that people like, but I wouldn’t bother with that if you’re already visiting areas famous for onsen and ryokan.
Also note that the Fuji climbing period is quite narrow, so make sure you are going during the allowed climbing period. Your itinerary doesn’t have a date, but you’ll want to be looking squarely at summer.
That already make more sense. Obviously, when you are in Kyoto and Tokyo, you can do day trips to locations that are nearby.
I would consider staying for the night in Nagoya. The big thing in Hakone is ryokan with onsen, but you usually have to check-in by 5pm, so if you leave Kyoto at 5pm, go check sumo, you are getting a bit late in Hakone… and returning to Kyoto would be a bit of a waste of time in my opinion.
Next I would consider going to Mount Fuji, you can go Fujinomiya 5th station from Shin-Fuji or Fujinomiya station. Then you climb down to Subashiri 5th station or Gotamba 5th station and get on the bus to Gotemba, from there you can get a bus to Hakone. I would just make sure to have the bus schedule for the different options to make sure that you can do it.
Why change the order ? Because it make more sense to go to Hakone for onsen rather than going to Tokyo for onsen… as Tokyo is not especially known for onsen.
Maybe I’m missing something or there’s just an issue with flights, but wouldn’t it be better to fly into Osaka and then fly out from Tokyo instead of going through Tokyo twice? You can even take a limousine bus from Osaka airport straight to Kyoto.
>Tokyo words. Depends on what you want.
The words of Kyoto. A stay of no more than one week is recommended.
of course. Kyoto is my favorite place to go.
You say “night trip” to Nagoya for the sumo tourney but matches start in the morning and end around 6pm just FYI